But, do you remember the iceman delivering, the shit truck picking up the sewage, long drop toilets, newspaper for toilet paper, having to earn a pen licence and icecream in cardboard packs? Not to mention having to chop the wood so mum could cook breakfast
@Lightupmylife I was raised in a tiny country town in South Australia. There were not too many "modern" conveniences
Yes I can. Loved the smell of the fresh pine sawdust we used in the long drop toilet, kept warm twice on cold winter nights by sawing and spliting the wood first, ice cream in cardboard tasted so good, and I can just remember when grandma still had squares of newspaper.
Big deal. Our first phone had no dial. It was a party line. There was no FM—no TV at all. No transistors. I used to plow with a horse and pick cotton by hand.
And I’m not all that old.